As Uzbek blogger Umid Miraliev passes through the streets of central Tashkent, he does so with a pronounced limp -- the result of a violent assault that he suffered in May. Footage of the attack that ...
Although there is much more freedom of speech compared to the Karimov era, ongoing attacks on bloggers and civil society activists show an alarming deteriorating dynamic in Uzbekistan. “Many suggest I ...
A rare trip to prison by a Uzbek rights activist to see two bloggers who many say are unjustly jailed revealed one hopeful of an early release and life without journalism, while the other's mood was ...
In the first week of December, one Uzbek blogger was released early on parole and another blogger was convicted and sentenced to eight years. A shared thread between the two men whose cases are ...
FILE PHOTO: Uzbek blogger Davronbek Tojialiyev poses during an interview with Reuters in Tashkent, Uzbekistan October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov By Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov TASHKENT ...
Recently, an incident in a retail store chain called “InBazar” in Uzbekistan became viral on social media. The video showed a store manager physically punishing a young employee for a minor mistake, ...
Uzbekistan has been abuzz since last week over the contents of a report by RFE/RL’s Uzbek service, Radio Ozodlik, about how a small circle of well-connected local and Russian tycoons have taken ...